And keep reading below to see six of the numbers that we’ve tracked year over year and how they’ve trended. We think they tell quite an interesting story!

More and more new parents (and growing families)

In the past three years, we have had the joy of celebrating 17 additions to the families of our Buffer teammates. To put that in perspective, we’ve had 17 new babies to celebrate these past three years, and we had 17 total teammates at Buffer, period, just four years ago!

This feels like a really positive sign of how welcoming our Buffer culture is to families and parents. We have a lot of work to do still, but we hope that policies like our family leavefor moms and dads and the flexibility of remote work help make Buffer a place where parents feel supported. Our family leave policy encourages six to 12 weeks of paid time off, and of our four new parents in 2018, two of them took eight weeks, one took 11 weeks, and one took 12 weeks. 👶🏻

Lots of reading for the Buffer team

One of our most unique (and highly-used) benefits at Buffer is our Kindle perk: We give all teammates and their partners a new Kindle when they join and unlimited Kindle books whenever they’d like.

This year, our reading perk expanded to include physical books as well as Audible subscriptions. So while the overall number of Kindle requests has gone down year-over-year, there are now more ways than ever to request books at Buffer.

Issues, pull requests, and new repositories

Our engineering team has kept busy these past few years with everything from making huge changes in the code to small tweaks. They are always working hard to make sure Buffer is a high-quality product for our customers. One exciting update is that this year we’ve been continuing to build Buffer Analyze (social media analytics) and bringing on more beta testers.

Listens on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Stitcher

In our Science of Social Media podcast, my co-host Brian and I chat about social media stories, insights, ideas, and strategies. This was our biggest year yet for podcasting, and we’re so grateful to have so many people listening and sharing our show!

Revenue from our customers

We’re incredibly grateful to our customers and audience for helping Buffer grow. Continuing to increase our revenue means we get to keep building Buffer into a powerful platform for marketers and businesses looking to use it for their social media marketing.

If you ever want to check in on our current revenue number, you can always head over to our Baremetrics dashboard where all of this information lives transparently.

Over to you

Thanks for taking this trip down memory lane with us! Head over to the full 2018 in Numbers page to see many more numbers we’re celebrating this year at Buffer.